Topic: University District

UPDATE 8:35 a.m. | Seattle police are searching for a woman believed to have stabbed a man in the University District early Thursday morning. Seattle police spokesman Drew Fowler said the suspect has been described as a white woman in her 20s, 5-feet-8 to 5-feet-10 inches and she was seen wearing a green jacket. She reportedly fled…

A pedestrian was badly injured after being struck by a car in Seattle’s University District Thursday evening, according to the Seattle Police Department. Medics responded to Northeast 55th Street and 15th Avenue Northeast around 6:30 p.m. after reports of a car-pedestrian collision. The pedestrian was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, according to the…

Five people were wounded in a University District shooting early Saturday in a fight outside a bar, according to Seattle police. More than 20 rounds were exchanged. Police spokesman Detective Patrick Michaud said witnesses described a group of people arguing in front of a bar in the 5200 block of University Way Northeast. Punches were thrown and one person who was…

A 23-year-old man who led police on a “slow speed” pursuit through the University District while armed with two knives last week was charged Tuesday with assault on a police officer, according to King County prosecutors. Prosecutors say the man, Joshua Ryan Cannon, was armed with two butcher knives and was “acting aggressively” when officers arrived in the 5800…

Seattle police are investigating reports of gunfire in the Central Area and in the University District last night and early this morning. Police spokesman Patrick Michaud said that officers were first called to the area of 23rd Avenue South and South Judkins Street just after 11:30 p.m. Witnesses told police that someone opened fire from the passenger…

Seattle police arrested a man Saturday night for attempted robbery, after he reportedly assaulted a victim in a University District alley with a pair of handcuffs. At around 11 p.m., according to police, the victim said he was confronted by a man he knew in an alley in the 4300 block of University Way Northeast. The suspect told the victim…

Seattle police say a 26-year -old man was shot in the arm during an attempted robbery early this morning in the University District. The victim was walking in the 4500 block of Ninth Avenue N.E. shortly before 1 a.m., when two people, one armed with a gun and the other carrying a baseball bat, confronted him…

Seattle police said one person is in custody following a bank robbery that occurred in the 400 block of Broadway at around 11:15 this morning. They are still, however, searching for the suspect in a another, earlier bank robbery in the 4100 block of University Way Northeast shortly after 9 a.m., police said. The suspect who remains at…

UPDATE, 6:20 p.m. | Three people were arrested this evening after a shooting where one man was seriously injured in the University District. Police responded to several reports of gunfire near Northeast 47th Street and Brooklyn Avenue Northeast shortly before 5:15 p.m. Officers found a 40-year-old man with a single gunshot wound lying on the…

Police are searching for a man who robbed a 7-Eleven store in the University District Wednesday afternoon, according to the Seattle Police Department. An adult male entered the 7-Eleven in the 4200 block of University Way around 4:15 p.m. and attempted to steal food, police said. When the store clerk confronted the man, he brandished a…

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